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A. J. PARKER. REGEPTAGLE OR HOLDER IN-HATS.

Patented Dec. 2, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED J. PARKER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

RECEPTACLE OR HOLDER lN HATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 441,805, dated December2, 1890. Application filed February 3, 1890. $erial No. 339,023 (Nomodel.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. PARKER, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing at the city and State of New York, have invented anImprovement in Receptacles or Holders in Hats, of which the following isa specification.

Before my invention various devices had been made use of within thecrown of a hat for holding therein cigars, gloves, and other articles,and in Letters Patent No. 417,365, granted to me, a holder isrepresented in which the box or receptacle is held by an arch, the endsof which can be cut off to vary the height of the arch within the hat.

My present improvements are adapted to different sizes of hats, and thearclrpiece is made of two parts connected with a half-circle bandpassing inside the lining or hatsweat, so that the arch-piece is held upin position, and connected to the arch-piece is a spring-clasp forgrasping a paper of tobacco, gloves, cigars, or other articles insertedwithin the clasp.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section of a hat with the holder insertedtherein. Fig. 2 represents the parts of the arch-piece laid out flat.Fig. 3 is a separate section of the clasp at right angles to Fig. l; andFig. 4 is a detached plan View of the holder.

The clasp A has two jaws or plates 2 and 3, bent up out of one piece ofsheet material, or one jaw being connected to the other, and there is aspring B acting to draw one jaw of the clasp toward the other. Forordinary purposes the clasp may be made of pasteboard or similarmaterial, either plain or covered with ornamental paper or fabric, andthe spring B may be an india-rubber band slipped around the clasp, asshown by dotted lines,Fig. a, so as to draw one jaw toward the other; orthe spring may be inserted through incisions in the material of theclasp, as represented by full lines in the drawings; or any suitablespring may be made use of to draw one jaw of the clasp toward the other,and this clasp is held within the hat with the I plate or jaw 2 againstor connected with the interior of the crown of the hat 0. I prefer tomake use of slots in the plate 2, into which are inserted the ends ofthearch-piece D,

these ends being inserted through slots in opposite directions so as tobe firmly connected therewith, and the semicircular band E connects theends of the arch-piece D, and it is adapted to pass between the insideof the hat and the lining or sweat-band, and such semicircular bandholds the arch-piece D firmly in position, and by drawing the ends ofthe arclrpiece more or less through the slots in the plate 2 the claspmaybe supported at the proper place and closely against the interiorsurface of the crown of the hat.

It will be apparent that this clasp is adapted to the reception of acard-case, a box of cigarettes, a match-box, a pair of gloves, ahatbrush, cigars, or other light articles within the hat, and that inconsequence of holding such articles firmly by the action of the springthey are not liable to drop out of the hat or become separated in theact of lifting the hat off the head.

I claim as my invention 1. A holder adapted to be placed within a hatand formed of two jaws and a spring to draw the one toward the other, incombina tion with an arch-piece connected with the holder and adapted topass down at the sides of the hat between the same and the lining orsweat-band, substantially as set forth.

2. The arch-piece having a connection between the two ends that isadapted to pass into the hat between the lining or sw eat-band and thehat and extending upwardly and across the hat, in combination with aholder fastened to the two ends of the arch-piece, substantially as setforth.

3. The arch-piece or support adapted to pass into a hat between thelining or sweatband and the hat and extending upwardly, in combinationwith a holder having two jaws and a spring to draw one part toward theother, there being slots in one jaw, into which the upper ends of thearch-piece are received, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this Qlth day of January, 1890.

ALFRED J. PARKER.

'itnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mom.

